President Obama is to meet with Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, about filling the Supreme Court vacancy.

A House committee is scheduled to hold a hearing with the F.B.I. and Apple. The agency’s director will argue that private companies’ encryption technology helps criminals, while the company’s top lawyer will counter that unlocking one iPhone weakens the security of all iPhones.

The Boston Globe newsroom is rejoicing over the triumph of “Spotlight” as best picture. The film is based on the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series exposing the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of sexual abuse by priests.

A crew arrived in 2000, and the space station has been continuously occupied since. The interlocking set of labs, living quarters and support equipment are about the size of a football field. All told, it has cost about $100 billion.